Egyptian Gold Serpent Ring with garnets, Roman Period AD). A hoop of round-section gold wire with double-coiled neck and lozengiform head, similar tail; three cells with beaded wire borders, each with an inset garnet cabochon.

During the late twelfth and then the thirteenth dynasty, late in the Middle Kingdom, people from western Asia established themselves among the Egyptian inhabitants of the eastern Nile Delta, especially at a place later called Avaris (now Tell el-Dab'a)